Essays in Academic Journals/Other Publications:

• “‘Knowing the Lie of the Land’: Chris Arthur’s Irish Nocturnes.” Nordic Irish  Studies 4 (2005): 191-194.

• Crossing the Threshold of Language: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the Speaking Subject.. Nordic Irish Studies 3 (2004) 51-64.

• “The Weight of Words: An Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. 29.1 (2003) 75-83.

• “A Review of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Girl Who Married the Reindeer.” Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing. 4.1-2 (2003): 255-258.

• “The Uncatchable Mystery of Being’: Chris Arthur’s Irish Willow.” Nordic Irish Studies 2 (2003): 144-146.

• “‘A Way-Station Along a Way’: Heaney and Heidegger and Wanderings and Home.” Nordic Irish Studies 1.1 (2002): 19-31.

• “Nihilism and Seamus Heaney.” Philosophy and Literature. 26.2 (2002): 405-414.

• “‘And / A Green Leaf of Language Comes Twisting Out of Her Mouth’: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and the Quest Theme.” Irish University Review 31.2 (2001): 420-30.

•  “Seamus Heaney: From the Personal to the Universal.” Studia Neophilologica 72 (2000): 174-80.

•  ”Vardagens mirakler - det religiösa i Heaneys poesi.” Svenska Kyrkans Tidning 43 (1995): 22-23.

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Conference Presentations/Guest Lectures:

• “Brian Friel and the Dancing Place of Memory.” “ReMembering Ireland - and the Art of John Banville,” Symposium on Memory and Irish Literature, History and Culture. Mid Sweden University, Härnösand, Sweden. 10-11 May.

• “The Element of the Spiritual in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Writing Ireland 2004: Past, Present  and Future. International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. 20-24 July.

• “The Celebration of the Corporeal in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry.” Invited member of panel on Irish Women’s Poetry at the International Irish Studies Conference. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. 12-16 July 2004.

• “‘The Real Thing’: The Flesh Made Word in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry.” “Real Ireland,” ACIS Conference: Southern Region (American Conference for Irish Studies). Emory University, Atlanta GA. 4-7 March 2004.

• “Fixity and Flux: The Exilic Subject in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Paper to be presented at the 4^th EFACIS Conference (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies). Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.  11-13 Dec. 2003.

• “Metaphors of the Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry.” Guest Lecture on Irish Women’s Writing, to the Woman’s Studies Seminar, Department of Comparative Literature. Porto University, Porto, Portugal.  10 Dec. 2003.

• “The New Sensuality: Metaphors of the Body in Modern Irish Poetry.” Keynote Address at Irish Studies Symposium “The 1990’s Revisited: Contemporary Irish Literature, Culture and Society.” University of Aarhus, Denmark. 21 Nov. 2003.

• “‘Between the Dark Shore and the Light’: The Liminal World of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin,” 13^th Annual CNYCLL Conference (Central New York Conference on Language and Literature), Cortland College of The State University of New York (SUNY). 26-28 Oct. 2003.

• ‘“Betwixt and Between’: The Body as Liminal Threshold in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Contemporary Irish Literature: Diverse Voices. University of Central Lancashire, Preston. 6 April 2003.

• “Metaphors of the Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Poetry.” Faculty Culture Seminar. Presentation of Work-in-Progress, Dalarna University College, Campus Lugnet, Falun, Sweden. 12 March 2003.

• “The Element of the Spiritual in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Public Presentation of On-going Research. Dalarna University College, Campus Lugnet, Falun, Sweden. 21 Feb. 2003.

• “The Poetry of the Two Contemporary Irish Women Poets, Medbh McGuckian and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.”  Seminar Leader at Doctoral Seminar. Department of English. Porto University, Porto, Portugal. 7 June 2002.

• “The Body and Desire in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry.” Lecture delivered to the Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature. Porto University, Porto, Portugal. 5 June 2002.

• “The Embodied Subject in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Irish Writing Today. 3^rd NISN Conference. (Nordic Irish Studies Network). University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. 16 May 2002.

• “The Body and the Spiritual in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry.” Doctoral Seminar. Department of English, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden. 17 Apr. 2002.

• “‘My Phosphorescence as Bed-linen Under Him:’ The Unspeakable Beneath the Speakable in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.” Postmodernism and Spirituality. Department of Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. 24 Mar. 2002.

• “Narrative as Healing: Informing and Redemption in Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal.” Ireland and Europe: Times of Re-orientation and Re-imagining. 3^rd EFACIS Conference. (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies).  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 7 Dec. 2001.

• “Neither Migrant nor Exile: The Nomadic Subject in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Ireland and Europe: Times of Re-orientation and Re-imagining. European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies Conference. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 6 Dec. 2001.

• “Embodiment and Spiritual Desire in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Body, Culture and Religion Symposium. Department of Theology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 5 Oct. 2001.

• “‘The Wanderer Catches Light From Chapel Doors’: Metaphors of Separation and Insight in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Second Voyage.” Odysseys. International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference. Dublin City University, Dublin. 2 Aug. 2001.

• “Beyond the Borders of Home: The Subject-in-Exile in the Work of Two Contemporary Irish Women Poets, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.” Nordic Association of English Studies Conference. Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. 25 May 2001.

• “A Way-Station Along a Way”: Heaney and Heidegger and Wanderings and Home.” Nordic Irish Studies Network Symposium. Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden. 17 Mar. 2001.

• “Crossing the Threshold of Language: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and the Spiritual Otherworld.” Irish Literature: Borders and Border Crossings. International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference. Bath Spa University College, Bath. 26 July 2000.

• “The Sacred and the Profane: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and the Language of the Body.” 2^nd NISN Conference. (Nordic Irish Studies Network). Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 19 May 2000.

• “The Trope of Metamorphosis in the Poetry of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.” Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English. University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland. 28 Apr. 2000.

• “Visionary Elements in two Contemporary Irish Poets.” Lecture delivered at annual meeting for the Dalarna Association of Teachers of Modern Languages (LMS). Haga Gymnasium, Borlänge, Sweden. 23 Feb. 2000.

• “‘And / A Green Leaf of Language Comes Twisting Out of Her Mouth’: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and the Renaissance Quest Theme.” Ireland and Europe Interchanges. 2^nd EFACIS Conference. (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies).  Sorbonne University, Paris, France. 17 Dec. 1999.

• “The Element of the Spiritual in Seamus Heaney’s Later Poetry: Beyond Nihilism and Postmodernism.” Irish Literatures at Century’s End. International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 26 July 1999.

• “Definite Presence in Seamus Heaney’s Seeing Things.” The History of the Book. International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference. Gothenburg, University, Gothenburg, Sweden. 5 Aug. 1997.

• “Silence in Seamus Heaney’s Seeing Things.” Faculty Culture Seminar. University College Dalarna, Falun, Sweden. 3 June 1997.

• “The Poetry of Seamus Heaney.” Special Guest Lecture and Study Day Workshop for in-service Language Teachers, Lugnet Gymnasium, Falun, Sweden. 30 Apr. 1996.

•  “Seamus Heaney: From the Personal to the Universal.” Conference held in connection with Alain Robbe-Grillet’s visit to Sweden. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 22 Apr. 1996.

• “Det Magiska i Seamus Heaneys Poesi.” Poetry Evening presented in Swedish and English, with actors Pär Andersson and Anneli Hedin. Scottes Music Theatre, Gävle, Sweden. 20 Mar. 1996. Reviewed in Gefle Dagbladet 22 Mar. 1996.

• “Seamus Heaney och vardagens mirakler.” Annual Open Lecture on Nobel Prize-Winner in Literature. Bålsta Public Library, Bålsta, Stockholm, Sweden. 6 Dec. 1995.

• “‘The Music of What Happens’: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney.” Guest Lecture, University College Dalarna, Falun, Sweden. 4 Dec. 1995.

• “The Teaching of Poetry.” Special Guest Lecture and Poetry Workshop for Teacher Education Programme, University College Dalarna, Falun, Sweden. 30 Aug. 1995.